Funny, smart and very entertaining: #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly meme on twitter

The one that started it all: Alice on a killing spree

In 1998, writer Rick Polito summed up the plot of Wizard of Oz for a TV magazine using a bit of a different angle on the classic movie:

«Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.»

14 years later, that synopsis made it’s round on the web and went viral thanks to someone posting it on reddit in 2012. It became so popular that Polito thought it would “follow him to the grave“. He might actually be right – then the meme just came back on Twitter and is more popular than ever. Just that know everybody is contributing their own quirky synopses at the rate of more than 200’000 tweets per day.